Thank you all again for commenting on my abstracts. I have started practicing drawing some. I really like comic books so I have been practicing on some characters like Hulk. None are worthy of showing here but when I get something I feel proud of I will share it. I have not been doing any painting the last few weeks.

I really like your paintings. I think 005.jpg is the best of the group for a number of reasons. The color is good in all of the work but 005 has a nice feeling of design. There is a dominate pattern that gives the painting a strong look beyond color and texture.

I have dismantled the amp but still have all of the circuit, knobs, switches etc.. in place. I just removed the speaker and tried to strip the cabinet. I kept the back painting with everything attached because I plan on redoing the clock case to match it someday. Next time I will put a speaker grille in.

Painting the speaker started as an accident, after I saw the paint on the speaker I just went with it. It was cool looking at one time but I ruined the painting by adding too much. I had several different versions, one almost matched the back but I kept adding colors and that was a mistake it is hard to know when to stop.

I agree the X's are no good and I was not going for that look it was an accidental slip of the paint stick with too wet of paint. then I tried to cover it up with others but that did not help anything, it just created the x and extra lines.

I should clarify that I like the crossing lines on the (speaker ?) ("158"). I think in that case it works great, because the crossing lines are different colors... and the way the lines are situated in the middle of the speaker, radiating outward, expresses the idea of sound being emitted from the speaker, which is fantastic. (...or is that the clock?? either way, I think it works)

The crossing lines that don't work for me are in the painting, ".005." the blue lines really read as an "X," but this could be easily remedied, I think, simply by adding other colors on top. You can do that with these pictures because the more texture, the better -- and you are able to add a lot of color without muddying things up, which is great. So that's not a problem at all.

But the beauty of your work really comes out of your sense of playfulness, and interest in the objects themselves, so I don't think there's any need for you to analyze it too much. I think the more fun you have with it, the better it is.